newsom vetoed a bill about curriculum standards (says he wants to wait for some report that’s still in the works, sigh) but the other pro-LGBT bills are still gonna happen unless he vetoes them by end of week. headlines should not assume people know the details of CA law…

holy shit I thought you were kidding but it really is

Something I wanna say, again:

Take a good long look at Gavin Newsom.

Openly declaring his opposition to trans rights, then vetoing trans rights bills.

THIS is what it looks like when a democrat is bad on trans issues.

They won’t keep it a secret. You won’t have to decode it. It isn’t subtext.

Her user name shows on screen for part of the video (top right)

The answer to “what is the president not allowed to do” seems to be “nothing” but our institutions are trying very hard to just not mention that fact, pretending each new thing he gets to do represents some heretofore undiscovered new nook of constitutional authority, uncovered after 236 years

of course this has no real basis in modern history, which has demonstrated over and over again that bigotry is a luxury. bigotry is a waste of human potential that you can only get away with when you're *not* in a life or death struggle with an enemy "hellbent" on destroying you

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

One Way Street.

I made this using a victim blaming PSA that the RCMP created a couple of years back.

to be clear: he can still sign the other bills and he should

call his office now

Gavin Newsom fucking sucks, part MCXVII

he still has until the end of the week for the rest of the bills so unfortunately it’s time to suck it up, call his office, and politely ask this living hairpiece to do the bare minimum to protect the most vulnerable among us

Simply go into the wilderness, a place that "woke" has never been.

Anyways, ignore all the Subarus you'll pass on the way there and assorted historical markers.

They can deny reality all you want.
Trans-folks still exist in the wilderness. And so does history.

lol same, I can't do the wobbly bits at all, much to my own embarrassment. On the other hand I will happily take all the burnt, dried-out, chewy ends of roast meat

Hmmm. I'd be worried about inhaling the dusty sugar and stuff though

In other words: GO YELL AT NEWSOM. Do it now. He's got until October 12 to sign these, he won't do it unless Californians MAKE him do it, and you know the bad guys are already making plenty of noise.

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

Uncooked unsoaked dry rolled oats, eaten like breakfast cereal with milk and a little brown sugar. I don't know why but I've liked it since I was a kid. No I am not a horse

also, the little bits of incredibly overcooked meat that are left on the bones after you make stock

One thing that the Swiss historically pointed to as why transit was so popular in referenda is that people who couldn’t drive (women and the elderly) are far more represented in a referendum than in a legislature or bureaucracy which tend to be filled disproportionately with able bodied men.

is the future of journalism a taco blog on every corner?

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

Every digital space is ontologically unsafe because of the organization of the digital world by colonialism and whiteness. Every. Single. One.

Liberalism of the kind you're espousing, and the kind that user-driven moderation evangelists seem to subscribe to, misses this fundamental fact.

Good for marginalized communities.

Bsky isn't becoming X because Bsky wants to become X. Bsky is becoming X because they want to continue to exist, and the structure around them is set up to make more X's.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

We need a large and loud response from the scientific community, or publishing at Wiley journals is going to come to a complete standstill. And since Wiley is the main alternative to Elsevier, there really aren't many options. Yet another industry has leaned into AI only to be utterly enshittified.